1878 .] 
[September, 
AMERICAN ACER IC ULI'URIST. 
JUST PUBLISHED 
AT HOME. 
By Rev. E. A. JOHNSON, D. D., 
Author of ‘ Half Hour Studies of Life." etc., etc. 
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FERNS 
In tlieir Homes and Ours. 
A New and Useful Work upon 
FJLttN CULTURE. 
By JOHN ROBINSON, 
Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology, etc., to 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
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THE HISTORY OF FERNS, 
Describing their peculiar structure and manner of 
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of Ferns, Selection of Soil, Pots, Fern-Cases, etc., are the 
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